“Re-Tweet” of 19 August post:
Blog Action Day, 15 October 2008, is an annual nonprofit event designed to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to discuss the same issue on the same day. Think of it as something like an intellectual flash mob. You don’t have to sign up to participate, but right now there are 2,305 sites registered.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, 20-year-old David Kernell, son of Rep. Mike Kernell (D), chair of the Tennessee Government Operations Committee, has pleaded not guilty to one felony count of “accessing a computer without permission.” See the indictment (pdf).
Gov. Palin’s personal Yahoo! email account was hacked into in September. You can see hacked material on WikiLeaks. Kernell turned himself in after he learned that he would be charged.
Internet response is interesting. A senior editor at ZDNet seems to think the crime is no big deal. Given that a Hawaiian postal carrier was sentenced to only six months for stealing mail — maybe he’s right. But it takes a lot more initiative — and premediation — to break into someone’s personal email account than it does to fail to deliver a piece of mail.
I think that this is what I’ll call all of these examples … it just makes life simple. The example this week comes from Ziff Davis Media publication PC Week:
My cousin and I talked a long time Sunday afternoon about diet and metabolism and exercise — and the effects of (practically) zero estrogen on the female body. One of those effects is how hard it is to keep weight off the waist/hips.
Later, I was poking around the Four Hour Work Week blog and then found myself offsite at Protein Power, a site supporting books by Dr. Michael R. Eades. One thing lead to another, and I found this post: How the media disses low-carb diets II.
Because of my complete hysterectomy in 2001, I learned a lot about hormones and how superficially (and, too often, incorrectly) the media report hormone replacement therapy (HRT) research. So I wasn’t surprised to see Dr. Eades complaining about how media like ABC “misrepresents the true outcome of studies.”
But I was surprised to see just how egregious this case was: the reporting was 180-degrees off from what the study concluded. Complete opposite!
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